Silo.



R. J. & A. c. KLATT.

SILO.

APPLICATION FILED HAY 23,1908.

948,397. Patented Feb. 8,1910.

Wihwaua 1 1 WWW UNITED t STATES PATENT OFFICE. 'nunoirn AND ALJEEGAM, or nEAvERmAm, wrsconsm. $11.6.

Patented Feb. 8, 1910.

Ap plicatlon flled llay 23, 1908. Serial no. 484,582.

' Tool! whom-it my comm" States,'resid1ng"et Beey'er Dam,

cation; reference tbeing had to panyingdrawing t Q1 rovide fasteni'ngs fortthe doors omtv'enient end eflioient, and at the same time bepeuh-anently'ettaehed to the body of theirwefght on'the doors being a:

Tfitted so as to form sei its in whfelrhars 'la er.

' attachments 'E- -E l Be it known that ve, BUo'oLrH J. Km'r'r' and ALmm'r O. KLATT, citizens ofthe United the county of Dodgex'and Stete'of iscohsin, have in, .vented oertilin new and nsefnll Improvements inSilos, of which the-,followingis a. speeifi;

the moon!- The leading'ob eet of oul mvention ,isto

h S a needless addition to thelhbo'x: of moving the 1 Figure ,1 its irontviw'of a, section'oqt the} door 'frame' of .a. silo one of the doors being 2 n sectional, top iew 3 24-2. iFig, 3 a top v1ew on the-line 3 '-3 the door being omitted.

body of the '1 silo is} com 'osed of Wooden stnves,B-B,-s;ndtwo u ri g t stand- 'the latter forming the sides of'a eontiniions doorway.

Cross bars, C, G, are secured eoross-thejd oo wayythus dlvidin g it into' sections-in the usualway, and G,: G, are hoops surrounding Attachsire pi yoted to the. a qent ends rest a ments, E,

inst the states, B, B. Y lted to the ialhnks, 1,

rest, said bars bein restingta i er an s 'A 1115,11, is eech door to prevent'its fa mgif'onebelow itjisqfi. An advantage of'thls style of doorpis thet-the rnqkvgood handles for the doors;

that shed er composed ofitwo; up rifght Planks, 15", F, eddeross pla-nks'whose We Claim as our invention 1. In afsilo with moontinuousdoorway,

aseries of bars pivotally sup ortedon the of the silo, arow theme? on each side of said doorway, a seriesof removable doors,

one above another, fitted in said doorway,

ands pair of attachments secured to each of said doors tend adapted to support a bar from each side of the doorway, the inner endsof'said bars forming steps for it ladder.

1 2. In a silo with a eontinnous doorway, a.

( door frame surrodnding'the doorway, a. se-

ries of doors, one above another, fitted in "said doorway, a series of bars pivoted to the "body of the sub, and attachments secured to said doors; and adapted to engage said bars,

a; rtionof each 'r resti agamst the door fi fne and thus h l ding tl:a door in plaeet 111 a -silo provided with a continuous doorway, a' bar gnvoted to thebody of the $110 at the side '0 said doorway and adapted "to fornrpart of a ladder, a hingeless remov- 55 able door fitted in said doorway, and an at- ;taqhrnentseoured to said door and ads ted "to engage said -bar,'sa-id bar holding the oor in place. y i 4. In a silo with}: continuous doorway, a series of doors fitted insaid doorway, a series 'of barspivotally connected at one end to the bodyof the silo at theside of the doorway, and attachments secured to the doors and -ada'pted to en age-said bars,said bars being adapted to ho the doors in place.

In testimony whereof; we have signed our names to'this specifieation in the presence of two witnesses below subscribing.

RUDOLPH J. KLATT. ALBERT CXKLATT. Witnesses: A. B. Gianni-ER, 

